| #2201: | "If you do not add value to the community, social media will never work for you." MRT @linkibol - i.e. In your tweets you must educate us! |
| #2202: | My new Homeless by Choice blog entry: "The Psychology of Keeping Warm" http://bit.ly/cCRvxl |
| #2203: | "Impossible is a word to be found only in the dictionary of fools." - Napoleon. Yeah, but that trite wisdom lead him to Russia! |
| #2204: | The most important nutrient for the mind is sleep. |
| #2205: | No parent can comprehend in the beginning how child rearing will consume their life. |
| #2206: | Identity etched on the skin is a weak substitute for identity defined by behavior. |
| #2207: | It is easy to acquire things (objects, activities, obligations) but hard to get rid of them. If you fail to divest, you lose your freedom. |
| #2208: | Freedom is your ability to respond to unexpected change. |
| #2209: | News articles I find interesting are now being added to my Favorites (instead of retweeting): https://twitter.com/kilroycafe/favorites |
| #2210: | Once you go vegan, gluton-free, organic, environmentally conscious, exploitation-free... honestly, what are you going to eat? |
| #2211: | Morality is different from self-denial. You don't become a moral person simply by creating barriers for yourself. |
| #2212: | REM Sleep is a very active time. Breathing is deep, heart rate up. The brain is awash with oxygen. Something important is happening! |
| #2213: | "REM atonia" is a state of muscular paralysis during sleep that prevents you from acting out your dreams. Your brain is safe to play. |
| #2214: | Latest chapter in my novel in progress: "Subject 23" http://kilroycafe.com/novel/subject/ ("Passing Through", Chapter 17) |
| #2215: | Are UFOs real? The more important question is, Are they relevant? I say No! http://bit.ly/XWqSM |
| #2216: | When a man buys real estate he starts building his own tomb. |
| #2217: | “Technology made large populations possible; large populations now make technology indispensable.” —Joseph Wood Krutch |
| #2218: | "Some people are like electrons: negative, and mindlessly revolving around only one thing." @gauravkantgoel |
| #2219: | How much living space do you need? An 8-foot cube is enough. Anything larger is only needed to store your weaknesses and absurdities. |
| #2220: | Almost anyone can do "form". Very few understand "function". |
| #2221: | Most music fans are motivated by their artist's story and what it represents, not the actual quality of the music. |
| #2222: | Parenting 101: If you make your house comfortable and inviting, all the kids in the neighborhood will hang out there and EAT YOUR FOOD. |
| #2223: | Most celebrities are not particularly attractive. If they weren't already famous, you wouldn't pick them out of a lineup as special. |
| #2224: | What do people believe? They believe whatever they have to believe to avoid self-doubt and protect their investments. |
| #2225: | Take everything you eat all day, throw it into a blender, purée, then drink. That's the nutrition your body is getting. |
| #2226: | Don't try to fool me with your fancy drink names. The magic ingredient is alcohol, pure and simple. |
| #2227: | You can travel someplace new, get to know the culture, make some mistakes, accept some risk, have an adventure... or you can go on a cruise. |
| #2228: | If you're gonna sell shit, it has to be new shit, not old shit. No one wants old shit, unless it's really, really old historic shit. - Facebook Comments |
| #2229: | Added 20 new photos to my album "America from the Air" http://bit.ly/b3Dr0r - Photos take out the window of airplanes. |
| #2230: | Ego is a great motivator, propelling many a prima donna to the top. Unfortunately, it usually pushes them off the other side. |
| #2231: | Pseudo-creative people surround themselves with all the symbols of the thing they are supposed to be doing, but they can't actually do it. |
| #2232: | There is no benign word or act that can't be interpreted as a threat. That's the magic of paranoia! |
| #2233: | When a paranoiac sees an imaginary threat, he may "defend himself" aggressively. The world responds, and the threat becomes real! |
| #2234: | If you're selling a useless product, there is a prime period to do it, while it's still fresh and before people see that it's crap. |
| #2235: | Super Bowl Sunday is a time to reflect on the vast wasted human potential of the people watching it. |
| #2236: | Thank God for breeders! Without them, our species would have perished long ago. Now, how do we get them to stop? |
| #2237: | Birth gave you two things without your consent: your body and your family. Both are imperfect, but you have to accommodate them. |
| #2238: | Sarah Palin is not just an idiot, but an idiot with conviction, who believes in herself 100%. Nothing you say can bring her down! |
| #2239: | "It is always thus, impelled by a state of mind which is destined not to last, that we make our irrevocable decisions." - Marcel Proust |
| #2240: | Super Bowl Sunday: an artificially created holiday designed to sell commercial products in the gap between Christmas and Valentines Day. |
| #2241: | New Orleans is being wiped off the earth by rising sea levels, but winning the Super Bowl would make everyone feel better, so... GO SAINTS! |
| #2242: | Best lyrics of the century (so far): "If it makes you happy, it can't be that bad. If it makes you happy, then why the hell are you so sad?" |
| #2243: | What? Who? Where? |
| #2244: | All the senseless tragedy of the world can be overwhelming sometimes. You just got to soldier on and focus on what you can change. |
| #2245: | A language is more than words. It's also our shared experience: Super Bowl, Octomom, etc. To speak it well you need to know popular culture. |
| #2246: | To be fluent in popular culture, you don't necessarily have to watch it. (That's too much TV!) You just need to read about it. |
| #2247: | Evolution is a story of relentless personal self-interest. It turns out, however, that this often entails cooperation. |
| #2248: | One advantage of the New York subway is that it gives autistic males something complex to study and memorize. |
| #2249: | Any decent pervert will try to cover his guilt by accusing others of sex crimes. Who is the sicko in the room? It may be the inquisitor! |
| #2250: | Wisdom may require some experience, but experience is no guarantee of wisdom. |
| #2251: | Most people are like aquarium fish, living the life of the fishbowl without caring to know about the world beyond it. |
| #2252: | Statistics are a way to lie with numbers. The numbers themselves don't lie, but the people who quote them rarely understand them. |
| #2253: | "Four out of five dentists surveyed" is a meaningless answer if the question is a truism. |
| #2254: | The most common mistake of popular statistics is to infer causality from correlation. X rising with Y doesn't prove one caused the other. |
| #2255: | "Truth" is open to interpretation, but "fact" can't be denied. If you blow off fact, it will get you in the end. |
| #2256: | The human world is built on a web of lies and delusions. If you dispell one of them, the system will replace it with another. |
| #2257: | If you're the first kid on your block with any new technology, you may be the first one screwed by it. Late adoption is the best policy. |
| #2258: | No statistic about what other people are doing can justify your own actions. Your situation is unique and must decided on its own merits. |
| #2259: | Red pill or blue pill? Once you take the red one, you can never go back, because delusions, once shattered, can never be put back together. |
| #2260: | My new photo album: "Coney Island" http://bit.ly/aQZc2K - What's a guy got to do to get a hot dog around here? |
| #2261: | A Coney Island of the mind is usually better than the real thing. |
| #2262: | No statistic about what other people are doing can justify your own actions. Your situation is unique and must be decided on its own merits. |
| #2263: | Checked out #googlebuzz and don't see it as a threat to Twitter. Too much functionality! No 140-char limit: exactly why twitter works! |
| #2264: | Pity the poor voiceover artist: doomed to read scripts he doesn't write, promoting products he doesn't use, as convincingly as possible. |
| #2265: | When driving in the bush in the Kalahari, it is always advisable to bring a Wal-Mart™ with you. With it, you can solve almost any problem. |
| #2266: | Hey, students, if the state is cutting your college's budget, get out there and protest! It will make no difference, but you'll feel better. |
| #2267: | Listen, when you're dead, don't go trying to tell us stuff, like how to commemorate you. Just leave a will and leave the rest to us. |
| #2268: | In the pantheon of fools, the Jerk is the most difficult. Inflated self-importance and low self-esteem are combined in one sublime package. |
| #2269: | You have matured in social media when you accept an essential truth: No one really wants to know what you are doing. They want content. |
| #2270: | In social media, as in life, your challenge is discovering your own style and purpose. What is your function here? |
| #2271: | Existentialism says that life itself creates its own meaning. You just solve the problems in front of you, in increasing sophisticated ways. |
| #2272: | Modern society is built on written rules. Once enacted, though, the rules become the enemy, because they don't respond well to change. |
| #2273: | The tyranny of rules is that they eventually get applied where they don't belong - like braille on drive-up teller machines. |
| #2274: | Freedom includes both the ability to do great things and the ability to destroy yourself. |
| #2275: | When confronted with freedom, the natural tendency of the individual is to neutralize it. |
| #2276: | The major neutralizers of freedom are marriage, children, debt, real estate, possessions, pets and promises. |
| #2277: | Low self-esteem encourages the belief that others are capable of more than they are, especially in giving you unlimited love and attention. |
| #2278: | No need to remind me! My mistakes are written on the inside of my skull - tattoos that will never come off. |
| #2279: | The aliens are playing with us, giving us tantilizing evidence but never enough and leaving us hanging in the end. Sort of like #Lost. |
| #2280: | Federal gov't shut down for the 3rd day by #Snowpocalypse. Wondering: Will they have to make up these snow days at the end of the year? |
| #2281: | New Homeless by Choice blog entry: "What You Don't Need for Sleep" http://bit.ly/acQGyO |
| #2282: | You can judge a person's impulsivity by how they use a room thermostat. Do they adjust it only slightly, or do they cycle between extremes? |
| #2283: | There may be medications for mood swings, but ultimately you have to control your own thermostat. |
| #2284: | Most musicians don't "get" music. They can play an instrument but they don't understand what the listener is hearing. |
| #2285: | Humor is an escape, but it can also be a prison, especially if you are expected to be funny on demand. |
| #2286: | "You never sausage a place! (You're always a weiner at Pedro's!)" - Billboard on I-95 approaching South of the Border, SC. |
| #2287: | Religion is the place you turn when you have given up trying to solve your own problems. |
| #2288: | New photos added to album: "South of the Border" http://bit.ly/JEHl4 - The tacky tourist trap at the NC/SC state line. |
| #2289: | "Persistent vegetative state" - That describes quite a few of the living, doesn't it? They're watching American Idol. |
| #2290: | The thing that unites all parents is their ill-preparedness for the task. "What were we thinking?" |
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| #2292: | Mistakes are a necessary part of learning. Unfortunately, some of those mistakes can kill you or suck up decades of your life. Sad lesson. |
| #2293: | To learn about the world, you have to have a starting bias. Your hypothesis may be based on flimsy data, but at least it starts the inquiry. |
| #2294: | Without judgments, no communication is possible. A wrong hypothesis is better than none at all because it gives you something to talk about. |
| #2295: | "All you need is love. And Valentine's Day is the perfect time to buy lots of things to prove it." @badbanana |
| #2296: | [Duplicate tweet deleted.] |
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| #2298: | Language Police: "cowboy" and "cowgirl" are sexist and discriminatory. From now on: "cowperson". Thank you for your cooperation. |
| #2299: | Those paranormal TV shows rot your brain. The pressure to find tantilizing evidence is huge, so they make it up. (I know cuz I've helped!) |
| #2300: | The best investment is not to be invested at all. |